Anora McGaha

Anora McGaha grew up in a diplomatic family moving every one to two years around the Mediterranean. In college she spent a year in Taiwan and another in China. In all living in fourteen countries and studying 7 languages.

She went to graduate school for International Affairs and had a twenty year career in major organizations in Boston, New York, Washington DC and Raleigh in a half dozen different analyst roles, with the last few years in marketing communications.

In April 2008 Anora began her first blog, a local photo blog. It took, and the fascination of the Internet led to one opportunity after another and a lot of exciting learning.

As of May 2011, Anora had spent three full years learning as much as possible about social media and Internet marketing for the micro and small business.

Anora has always had an interest in sharing what she's learned with others, writing her first booklets for the foreign exchange program between the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and Taiwan and China.

Writing and helping write books about social media continue that earnest appreciation for helping pave the way for others.

The Social Media for Business book began in the fall of 2010 and was completed in June 2011 with chapters from 20 contributors included.

Anora has developed a series of workshops on social media and Internet publicity for authors and writers, and together with Martin Brossman is developing classes based on the book, and Martin's Dynamic Engagement Marketing plan.

Anora also writes non-fiction essays and poetry. She's working on a non-fiction book, a collection of poetry, while also working with writers and authors on their books and Internet publicity. Anora is an amateur photographer.

In May 2011, Anora started Women Writers, Women Books, an international women's magazine for and about writers and authors. BooksbyWomen.org.

Anora lives in the Raleigh, North Carolina area of the United States, with her husband Martin, a video engineer, and their rescued beagle Lady. Anora's son Jason is in law school, and is also a writer and photographer. She loves living in North Carolina and meeting so many talented creative people.

Anora can be followed on twitter through these ids:

@anorawrites for her writing

@clearsightpr for her business

@womenwriters for her online magazine for women writers and authors

She has a Facebook Page at Facebook.com/USAuthorAnoraMcGaha.